Denis Villeneuve Quotes
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
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A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.
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September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.
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Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
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The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.
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You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.
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Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.
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I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
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Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
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Taylor's Law states: 'The Foreign Office knows no secrets.'
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And you know the reason I really love the stars is that we cannot hurt them. We can't burn them or melt them or make them overflow. We can't flood them or blow them up or turn them out. But we are reaching for them. We are reaching for them.
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They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.
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Constantly travelling means I don't always get to eat well - so it's probably a good idea for me to do some exercise.
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The unusual thing about doing street poster art - or something with a conscious social critique in it - is that the artist thinks they're a little in control, focusing and trying to make a specific point. But even then, when you look at it a few years later, you realize you were just working through some of the usual feelings you were going through during that time.
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When you're transitioning, and you're trying to develop a better brand of soccer, at some point, you have to step backward before you step forward.
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I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle.
